Evil Explained (Milgram/ Stanford Prison Experiment)

“This provides new insight into the psychology of oppression and gels with other evidence that perpetrators are generally motivated, not by a desire to do evil, but by a sense that what they are doing is worthy and noble.” (Independent; British Journal of Social Psychology )

Professor Alex Haslam from University of Queensland comments on new analysis of the Milgram Experiment which shows that the 60% of participants who punished actors with apparently fatal doses of electricity, did so not because they were implicitly evil but because they believed they were contributing to science.